MUSE DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL Muse Distribution International is the sales arm of Muse Entertainment Enterprises, delivering television programming to broadcasters, cable and pay networks, to theatrical, VOD, SVOD, video, iTunes and to DVD distributors around the world. Muse Distribution has more than 460 hours of top quality entertainment for sale, including primetime event miniseries, captivating series, dramas, thrillers, mysteries, comedies, series for children and families as well as thought-provoking documentaries. Muse Entertainment is a leading, independent film and television production house known internationally for its well crafted and high quality productions. Muse is a foremost expert in international co-productions, having produced television programming and feature films in more than a dozen countries. Since its founding in 1998, Muse has produced, co-produced or provided production services on more than 170 TV movies, miniseries, television series and feature films. Muse-produced programs have won over 100 awards and garnered over 300 award nominations! Muse Entertainment Enterprises USA, the company’s Los Angeles operation, has reached deeply into the U.S. television market since starting up in 2008. It has realized several Muse productions including television series and movies-of-the-week, as well as numerous development deals with American pay, cable and free networks. Muse Entertainment Enterprises Ontario is set in Canada’s media hub, Toronto. Muse Entertainment Ontario helps serve Muse Entertainment’s development, financing and production operations. Muse Entertainment Ontario is also the company’s centre for its new boutique factual division, Muse Factual. Muse Factual is committed to working with Canadian and international broadcasters in creating, financing and delivering high-impact and entertaining non-scripted series and specials. Offering a 360 degree approach to production, Muse Factual collaborates with talent from all over the globe in developing and producing contemporary and market-driven non-scripted programming. MINISERIES THE KENNEDYS MINISERIES MINISERIES DRAMA 8x1 hr. or 4 x2 hrs. They’ve been called America’s royal family. But that does them – and the country – little justice. Royals are born to their status. The Kennedys made themselves into theirs in an utterly American way, through driving ambition, hard work and, when necessary, a willingness to toss the rule book aside.The Kennedys portrays these most public of figures in their most private moments of happiness, despair, intimacy and estrangement. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS LA7 Italy AWARDS Jon Cassar (24) 365 Media Iceland MTVA Hungary Won 4 Emmy Awards A&E Ole Networks Latin America NHK Japan Won 3 Gemini Awards STARRING ABC Australia NRK Norway Won 1 DGA Award Greg Kinnear AETN 18 India ReelzChannel USA Won 5 DGC Awards AETN All Asia Networks RTBF Belgium Won The NY Festivals (Little Miss Sunshine) AETN UK RTE Ireland International Television & Film Barry Pepper ARTE Germany RTS Switzerland Grand Trophy Award (Saving Private Ryan) CNTV Korea Sinema TV Turkey Won 1 History Makers Award Katie Holmes Discovery Russia Sky Network Television Nominated for 10 Emmy Awards ERR Estonia SVT Sweden Nominated for 10 Gemini Awards (Batman Begins) Fox Portugal Telecinco Spain Nominated for 1 Monte Carlo Tom Wilkinson France Télévision TV4 AB Denmark Award (In the Bedroom) Global Canada VRT Belgium Nominated for 1 Producers Guild IBA Israel YLE Finland Award 3 BEN HUR MINISERIES DRAMA 2 x 2 hrs. Judah Ben Hur and Messala are best friends who grew up together until Messala leaves for Rome for military training. Messala returns to Jerusalem years later in charge of the Roman garrison. When Ben Hur’s family is blamed for an uprising against Rome, Messala makes an example of them, sending Ben Hur to slavery in the galleys and his sister and mother to prison. After three years in the galleys as a slave and his desire for revenge growing, Ben Hur returns to Jerusalem to settle the score between him and Messala in a tense and exhilarating chariot race. Based on the original 1880’s novel by Lew Wallace, Ben Hur the miniseries is a gutwrenching, action-packed drama about vengeance and the power of forgiveness. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS AWARDS Steve Shill (The Sopranos) Antena 3 Won 1 ACTRA Award Prosieben for Outstanding Female STARRING CBC Performance Joseph Morgan (Alexander) ABC Won 1 Gemini Award for Stephen Campbell Moore Ovation Best Visual Effects (The Bank Job) Nominated for 1 Gemini for Best Sound Emily Van Camp (Brothers and Sisters) Ray Winstone (The Departed) James Faulkner (Harry Potter) 4 THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH MINISERIES DRAMA 8 x 1 hr. Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tear lives and families apart, human drama and love stories entwine. Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the noblewoman; the sadistic Lord William; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone work and Ellen, the woman from the forest who casts a curse, are just some of the fascinating characters. Based on Ken Follett’s hugely popular novel, The Pillars of the Earth weaves their stories through the political turmoil of 12th century England. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS AWARDS Sergio Mimica-Gezzan PROSIEBEN/SAT 1 Won 1 Emmy Award (Heroes) Sogecable Won 3 Gemini Awards CBC Nominated for 7 Emmy Awards STARRING ORF Nominated for 10 Gemini Awards Ian McShane (Deadwood) TV2 Nominated for 3 Golden Globe Awards Donald Sutherland (Human Trafficking) HBO Canada Nominated for 1 Monte Carlo Television Rufus Sewell (The Illusionist) Movie Central Festival Award Matthew Macfadyen (Frost/Nixon) Hayley Atwell (The Duchess) 5 EXPLODING SUN SCI-FI/ACTION 2 x 2 hrs. MINISERIES The world’s first commercial space shuttle is struck by a solar storm. The disaster hyper-charges the space shuttle’s engine and catapults the ship on a direct course for the sun. But the danger becomes cataclysmic when it’s discovered that the event is triggering a much larger solar storm that could send Earth back into the Stone Age - if it isn’t stopped in time. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Michael Robison (Nikita) Syfy Space STARRING David James Elliott (GCB) Anthony Lemke (Lost Girl) Julia Ormond (Mad Men) CAT. 8 SCI-FI/ACTION 2 x 2 hrs. MINISERIES When a breakthrough in global defense malfunctions, the result is a fireball four times the size of Earth streaking toward the planet. As fires blaze and panic spreads, a renegade scientist comes to the world’s rescue. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Kevin Fair Syfy (Smallville) Space STARRING Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises) Maxim Roy (Heartland) Ted Whittall (The Killing) 6 THE LAST TEMPLAR DRAMA 2 x 2 hrs. MINISERIES When a priceless artifact is stolen from New York’s Metropolitan Museum, archeologist Tess Chaykin and FBI agent Sean Daly are propelled into a treacherous adventure that takes them through the sewers of Manhattan, across continents to desolate Turkish highlands, to a violent storm on the Mediterranean that shipwrecks them onto a remote Greek island - and into the very heart of an incredible Vatican secret. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Paolo Barzman NBC (Being Human) Global STARRING Mira Sorvino (Human Trafficking) Victor Garber (Alias) Scott Foley (Felicity) Omar Sharif (Dr. Zhivago) THE PHANTOM SCI-FI 2 x 2 hrs. MINISERIES Filled with stunts and special effects, this miniseries is based on the legendary adventure comic strip. Chris Moore is shocked to learn that he was adopted when his parents died and that he is actually the son of Kit Walker - The Phantom, a caped crime-fighter. He joins the Phantom Team in the jungles of Bengalla to be expertly trained in combat and emerges as the next Phantom to uphold his ancestors’ creed and battle the assassins of the evil Singh Brotherhood. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Paolo Barzman Syfy (The Last Templar) Movie Central TVA STARRING Ryan Carnes (Desperate Housewives) Sandrine Holt (24) Jean Marchand (Trudeau) Cameron Goodman (Mad Men) 7 HUMAN TRAFFICKING CRIME DRAMA 2 x 2 hrs. MINISERIES This tense and powerful miniseries about the underground sex slave trade exposes the ugly world of an international ring of sex traffickers and their abducted victims. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Christian Duguay City TV (Coco Chanel) Lifetime STARRING AWARDS Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) Won Gemini Award for Donald Sutherland (Citizen X) Best Dramatic Mini-Series. Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) Won DGC Award for Rémy Girard Outstanding Direction. (The Barbarian Invasions) Nominated: 3 Emmy Awards 2 Golden Globes 5 Gemini Awards IMPACT ACTION/DRAMA 2 x 2 hrs. MINISERIES A huge meteor smashes into the moon, changing its properties and orbit. Scientists announce that the moon will crash into Earth and all life will perish unless an international mission of astronauts succeeds in reversing the moon’s magnetic effects and restoring its original orbit. The survival of mankind is in their hands. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Michael J. Rohl ABC (Smallville) Syfy Channel Super Channel STARRING David James Elliot (Jag) Natasha Henstridge (Species) James Cromwell (The Queen) 8 ANSWERED BY FIRE DRAMA 2 X 2 hrs. MINISERIES Based on true events, this is the powerful, action-packed story of courage and love throughout the tumultuous 1999 referendum in East Timor and its horrifying aftermath. Canadian and Australian police officers volunteer for the United Nations Mission as Civilian Police, but they are emotionally unprepared for the bloody reality that awaits them. DIRECTED BY AWARDS Jessica Hobbs Won the Australian Cinematographers’ (Love My Way) Society Award Won 2 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards STARRING Won 2 Australian Film Institute Awards Isabelle Blais Won 1 Screen Producers’ Association (Human Trafficking) of Australia Award David Wenham Won 1 Cinema Tout Ecran International (Lord of the Rings) Film & TV Award Alex Tilman (Balibo) Won 1 Chicago International Television Award NETWORKS Nominated for 5 Geminis CBC ABC Australia Historia FLOOD ACTION/DRAMA 2 X 2 hrs. MINISERIES A raging storm and high seas unleash a colossal surge, which travels mercilessly down England’s East Coast and into the Thames River.